24 January, 2011

George Mason argued the importance of the militia and right to bear arms by reminding his compatriots of England's efforts "to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them . . . by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." He also clarified that under prevailing practice the militia included all people, rich and poor. "Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." Because all were members of the militia, all enjoyed the right to individually bear arms to serve therein.

The framers thought the personal right to bear arms to be a paramount right by which other rights could be protected. Therefore, writing after the ratification of the Constitution, but before the election of the first Congress, James Monroe included "the right to keep and bear arms" in a list of basic "human rights" which he proposed to be added to the Constitution.

Patrick Henry, also in the Virginia convention, eloquently argued for the dual rights to arms and resistance to oppression: "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." Thus, they agreed that an armed populace was the ultimate check on tyranny.

However, it is also about the simple enjoyment of honing a skill, friendship, fellowship, food, defense and family.

I could post more links, in fact link after link after link to further support this but you can research it yourself- do not believe me, LEARN!

Just understand that this truth terrifies so many- especially those elected who desperately want the 2nd INFRINGED, but this is but a part of the price of our Liberties; the risk that such can happen as is happening with each ticking minute.

This point cannot be expressed strongly enough- the 2nd Amendment is a Right. Rights are not granted by Man or governments- but are yours at conception (as Nature and Natures God intended) the basic Right to self-defense. As of today, the best tools to do this are firearms, along with the supporting accessories for them (which include the various types of ammunition and even the magazines that hold such), irrespective of the advancement since the 2nd was penned to parchment, and cannot be done away with- simply INFRINGED or ABRIDGED.

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

NONE of us really wants to ever have to use it for hunting such and nor am I advocating doing such now; nevertheless, the primary purpose IS to remind those elected, and those wishing to enslave the populace (not all are elected- just supported by your stolen productivity), that the People fully retain the right to hunt tyrants down- permanently.

22 January, 2011

The death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent north of Nogales, Ariz., on December 14, 2010 might turn out to be the death knell for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF.

Allegations have surfaced suggesting that one of the guns used by Mexican bandits during the firefight in which Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed might have been smuggled into Mexico with the knowing assistance of ATF officials. If these allegations prove to be true, it is quite possible that the long troubled agency could be dismantled. Even if there proves to be no connection with Agent Terry's death, the scrutiny generated by an investigation could crash the agency.

There are actually four separate but connected accusations against ATF officials: First, that they intentionally arranged to have hundreds of firearms "walked" across the U.S. border into Mexico. Second, that they instructed U.S. gun dealers to proceed with questionable and illegal sales of firearms to suspected gunrunners. Third, that they intentionally withheld information about U.S.-sanctioned gun smuggling from the Mexican government. Fourth, that one of the guns ATF allowed or helped to be smuggled into Mexico was involved in the death of Agent Terry.

21 January, 2011

When I wrote the post below -- "Yogi Berra was right. Rumor of a big, bad ATF bust early next week." -- around midnight last night, I was acutely aware of the slippery ground upon which this shadow war for the truth of Operation Gunwalker and the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry is being fought.

Rumors can be -- and often are -- floated like dye in the sewer, just to see where it goes to close down leaks. Given the high stakes of the games being played behind the scenes by the White House and their Justice Department minions desperate to stop the truth from coming out, this is certainly a concern. But when a rumor -- any rumor -- comes from multiple sources, sources which have always been right in the past, sources who do not know each other, it is less likely to be disinformation dye and more likely to be the real turd.

Expect stupidity, incompetence and lies from F-Troop as they got their own killed before and I expect the same in the future.

Though, what amazes me the most, is why the Border Patrol Agents Union is not screaming louder for answers because this relates directly to the murder of BP Agent Brian Terry.

25 August 09
New "Grassroots" Pro-Coal Group backed by K-Street PR Firm

"The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal)." the latest "grassroots" organization to join the public conversation on behalf of the coal industry, appears to be a project of the K-Street public relations firm, the Adfero Group, one of industry's most accommodating voices in Washington, D.C.

The FACES website, which includes no contact information, is registered to Adfero.

[Update: since we posted this article, the website registration for facesofcoal.com has been updated overnight and Adfero's name has been wiped, however - thanks to research by one of our most loyal readers, Frank Bi, a cross-reference with Adfero's IP address still shows facesofcoal.com running on their server.]

FACES describes itself as "an alliance of people from all walks of life who are joining forces to educate lawmakers and the general public about the importance of coal and coal mining." But Adfero's client list includes Koch Industries and the US Chamber of Commerce, two leaders in the fight to confuse, distort and deny the science of climate change - and especially to block government action that might affect their bottom line.

FACES' coming-out press release claimed the new group consists of, "Some 70 different organizations and individuals representing a broad cross-section of people and communities throughout the Appalachian region are the coalition's first members. Any individual, business or organization can join FACES of Coal."

But Adfero doesn't specialize in spontaneous public advocacy. It specializes in crafting a "custom-tailored message" and then recruiting "key contacts" who can slam that message home. Here, from Adfero's own website, is their own version:

"At the end of the day, it's all about relationships. From policymakers to homemakers, people respond best when the message is delivered by someone they know and trust.

"That's where traditional grassroots outreach comes in. Adfero is able to tap an impressive network of national, state and local contacts to deliver your custom-tailored message. We’ll identify and recruit local constituents, opinion leaders, community activists or political operatives to engage in activities designed to get attention and results. We have access to key contacts on the ground who can conduct intercepts with elected officials at speeches, rallies, local town hall meetings and other events."

Interesting, and even more so when I found the following link in the comments there.

This may seem trivial, but the logs have been full of search hits about Ashley Turton and some examples are the Executive Office of the President, the CIA (on a Blackberry no less), DHS and other 3 Letter Agencies, the BATFE, several K-Street Groups (like Adfero), and others just seemingly interested.

The major media has been very quiet about Ashley Turton's death and the unusual circumstances and the fine folks at FreeRepublic are posting some interesting information in the threads (1, 2, 3).

Go, read, learn and ask some questions as this is becoming curiouser and curiouser.

the police—oathbreakers all—in Arlington, MA, who have conspired in violation of the First and Second Amendments and 18 USC 241 - 242 to deny one Travis Corcoran the free exercise of his constitutionally-protected civil rights.

Travis is known as TJIC on his blog (now offline). Goons came and took his guns and ammo and his Massachusetts 'gun license', as they trampled on the Constitution, some Amendments, Federal Law, and common sense.

Oh, so now the well fed Sergeant Rudy Luna states they should be and no one needs this? Tell us Sergeant Rudy Luna, just where in the Constitution does it say our servants get to tell the citizen what he needs or doesn't need? Or you Katie, asking someone who does not speak a word of English (though you have the text on your site transcribed instead of in Spanish as in the video) which creates doubt as to his citizenship, why his opinion matters? You see Katie, that man, is seemingly Mexican and everyone knows in Mexico, you cannot own a gun without government approval which makes it damnably easy for them to control and dictate to its subjects what THEIR needs are.

Continue to try to justify your well fed existence Sergeant Rudy Luna and keep promoting the War On Some Drugs- however, we know what you spout, "Only One", is a lie. Are you really happy wiping your well fed ass with the Constitution and Bill of Rights?

Reporting from Tucson and Washington — Joe Zamudio was out buying cigarettes last Saturday when he heard what sounded like fireworks but quickly realized were gunshots. He reached into his coat pocket for the 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol he carried, clicking the safety off.

He heard yelling around him: "Shooter, shooter, get down!"

Zamudio saw a young man squirming on the ground and an older man standing above him, waving a gun.

Zamudio, 24, had his finger on the trigger and seconds to decide.

He lifted his finger from the trigger and ran toward the struggling men.

As he grabbed the older man's wrist to wrestle the gun away, bystanders yelled that he had the wrong man — it was the man on the ground who they said had attacked them and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). The gun the older man was holding had been wrestled away from the shooter. Police later identified 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner as the suspect.

"I could have very easily done the wrong thing and hurt a lot more people," said Zamudio, who helped subdue the suspect until authorities arrived.

The fact that Zamudio was carrying a gun, and his split-second decision to keep it in his pocket, has come to encapsulate the complexity of the national gun debate.

Gun rights advocates say his quick action showed that a well-armed — and well-trained — person could protect himself and the public.

But gun control advocates see Zamudio's story as an example of how Arizona's gun-friendly culture and lax gun laws have not only failed to make the streets safer, but also have potentially endangered lives.

"They always say, 'What if someone with a concealed weapon was there and could stop this,' " said Kristen Rand, legislative director for the Washington-based Violence Policy Center. "Well there was, and he almost shot the wrong person."

As for Zamudio, he said he was glad he had his gun that day and knows he did the right thing, even if he was not able to stop the shooting.

"I wish I had stopped him sooner," Zamudio said. "We're all responsible to help."

Summary: For many months the ATF's "Project Gunrunner" initiative was under fire for poor management, exaggerated statistics, etc. Floundering to carry out an agenda that wasn't entirely covered by the law, stung by poor publicity and an Inspector General's report that excoriated their performance, it is alleged by ATF's own agents that the Phoenix office of ATF began a policy of "walking" semi-automatic rifles south of the border -- at first with a wink and a nod, later, according to one agent:

"(The agency was) not only looking the other way but actually facilitating trafficking, threatening and punishing agents who voiced objections, covering up trace information, the truth about the gun that killed BPA Terry, what I.C.E. knew, it goes on and on."

This is a follow-up to yesterdays link to David Codrea's National Gun Rights Examiner piece and here is the link for his:

Charlie Harman, Chief of Staff for Sen. Saxby Chambliss tells us you are the appropriate Senate Judiciary Committee contact to discuss "Project Gunwalker" with, and says he has already forwarded some relevant documentation to you. Here's why:

ATF employees are looking to come forward and provide testimony and documentation about guns being illegally transported to Mexico, with management cognizance, in order to pad numbers and justify Project Gunrunner expansion. This includes gun stores being used to allow illegal sales to proceed. Additionally, the gun used in the recent killing of a Border Patrol agent is alleged to be one of the guns involved. My colleagues and I working to bring this to light are told the Mexican authorities have been intentionally kept in the dark about this, with the approval to do so coming from Washington, and protests have been overridden.

Hit the links, read them fully and then start calling and writing. Understand, these paragons of the Republic will try to weasel out, afraid to even question such because of the Tucson Nutcase- do not let them!

18 January, 2011

We've recently discussed what I call "Project Gunwalker." That title is a parody of the "Project Gunrunner" name the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has assigned to its southwest border initiative on U.S. guns going to the Mexican drug criminals, and refers to sourced information that the bureau has intentionally—and importantly, criminally, and with management cognizance—allowed guns to be transported across the border while keeping Mexican authorities in the dark.

We also touched on allegations regarding the gun used in the recent killing of a Border Patrol agent, and established some key questions for investigators to follow up on.

Hit the link, read and start phoning those paragons of the Republic stated in the article- and then your own.

San Juan police told Action 4 News they found items that no ordinary citizen should be in possession of mere feet from an elementary school.

"The only type of person who should have this is law enforcement," said Sgt. Rudy Luna. "We will find out where he got this and who sold this to him."

50 ballistic helmets, 26 high powered rifle magazines, over 600 rounds of ammunition, and 24 pairs of tactical boots were all found inside a home in the 7,000 block of Fern Street Sunday afternoon.

Police told Action 4 News to buy these items a person has to have a special license and the man in possession of these items did not.

"You have to show proof of law enforcement," said Luna. "It is under investigation of how he gained possession of this equipment."

Katie, Sergeant Rudy Luna may earnestly wish it to be so, but it is there is no such law on Texas's books UNLESS the man arrested was a felon, and tha is federal law. Moreover, if there was such a law on Texas' books- then why NO charges yet?

Oh, and Katie if you doubt me, visit any SAXET Gun Show, there is ALWAYS body armor and ballistic helmets for sale. It appears you just missed your chance- but another is coming in four weeks.

As for everyone else, hit the link and go watch, as this well fed "Only One", makes his statements.

And as to both of you, I did not bring up Mexico, as you offered NO PROOF- just speculation, and speculating is easy, isn't it?

High-powered weapons and ammunition were among the items seized from the home of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist who has become increasingly paranoid and outspoken against the lab and the government.

Los Alamos police trying to serve a warrant arrested Richard Lee Morse, 75, outside his 1350 Bathtub Row home at 11:45 a.m. Thursday when "he just came out to throw some trash away" after nearly 19 hours, according to Los Alamos Capt. Randy Foster.

A search warrant executed Thursday on Morse's home netted the discovery of three guns — a .30-06 rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm Beretta pistol — and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, including 661 rounds for the powerful .30-06 rifle alone. As a condition of his release from jail for a pending criminal case, Morse was not allowed to own a gun.

Hmm, high-powered weapons? The 22 or the 9MM- nope that horrible 30-06, and of course there is that increasing paranoia, but you fail to mention WHY the search warrant was issued to begin with as becoming "...increasingly paranoid and outspoken against the lab and the government." Such is not not a crime- or is it?

Thanks Santa Fe New Mexican, this article certainly seems like a hatchet job as you state DEEP in the article, the eighth paragraph in fact, that Mr. Morse was "awaiting trial before Pfeffer on a charge of battery on a peace officer in Los Alamos in August, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation before that case could proceed, but a bed at the Las Vegas, N.M., hospital where that evaluation was to take place was not available until this week."

However, in looking in your site, I could find no previous information, and had to look elsewhere and could only find that on August 3rd, 2010, at:

Not one word about battery of a peace officer but again, you put deep in the article the complaints he had made to the police about the mysterious killing of his cats, his concern with leaving his house, the surveillance, and the beating he received.

Oh yes, let us not forget the last three paragraphs of this hatchet job:

He added to the Monitor, "This is happening to me because I blew the whistle on the W-76."

Los Alamos police say they do not intend to charge Morse with any new charges stemming from this week's standoff, but will keep him incarcerated until his psychiatric evaluation.

"Unfortunately because this took so long, that bed that was available for him that started this whole thing has since been filled," Foster said.

In fact, Mr. Morse did complain about his serious concerns with the W76, as this link shows and more can be found with this search.

You start with the title to bring shock and fear, which I think you used due to the nut in Tucson, say he was against the Los Alamos National Lab and government and then say high powered weapons seized, when there is not one (30-06 rifle was not specified so I am thinking deer rifle), say that the 9MM is "rapid-fire", and over 1000 rounds of which 661 were for the 30-06.

On deep background, entirely off the record, and without any proper names for attribution, I simply still am compelled to report this story of alleged bureaucratic horror and alleged American death in the forsaken Arizona Peck Canyon region on the night of December 14, 2010, when U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry died after a firefight with armed Mexican drug cartel members.

My journalism professor in the 50's told us to never discount a rumor. "There's always a germ of truth in any rumor you're told," he said. "While it may not be exactly what happened, don't ignore it, dig for the truth."

Now my source in the AZ border region tells me a story so upsetting I am without words. But here it goes:

"Bottom line: A series of bad Border Patrol/Department of Homeland Security procedures, policies, and protocol, all designed to protect Mexican criminals inside the U.S., most likely resulted in the needless death of Agent Brian Terry on the night of Dec. 14, 2010." The word is out that when Agent Terry and the illegal alien, a bandit, twice deported, who assaulted another Phoenix cop, were wounded in their shootout, the decision was made to airlift out the alien on the only BORSTAR helicopter available in that desolate region of the U.S. Now under a very strict gag order by brass in D.C., Nogales, and Tucson, agents have been threatened with firings, job termination, if “they are caught talking about the facts of Terry's murder!" The tipster then goes on to relate that Terry, a legal U.S. citizen, one of our own law enforcement men, finally was loaded onto some desert transport overland vehicle and driven out somewhere where another copter was parked. Terry died; the illegal drug cartel Mexican national who got first medical priority, of course, lived!

The unconfirmed and un-attributable source then concludes, "Agent Terry reportedly waited many minutes-up to 1/2 hour-before they flew him out of the canyon region." Terry appears to have "died en route to the hospital!"

I am waiting to hear back from some sources to verify or debunk this, however, gut instinct from other things I know- it sounds true.

14 January, 2011

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) All four suspects arrested following the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry were indicted on felony immigration charges. According to an attorney representing one of the suspects, the four were charged with illegal re-entry and other misdemeanor immigration charges.

Leslie Bowman told KGUN9 News, she has no information on any charges related to the killing of Brian Terry.

Border bandits gunned down Terry near Rio Rico on December 14. Shortly after, agents arrested the four suspects near the shooting. They were appointed lawyers through the Federal Public Attorney's Office.

SANFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- While attending a meeting for business leaders in Sanford, Governor Paul LePage spoke out about why he would not attend Martin Luther King ceremonies on the upcoming holiday.

LePage has declined invitations from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The organization has already expressed its displeasure with the governor's plans to not attend the events.

"They are a special interest. End of story...and I'm not going to be held hostage by special interests. And if they want, they can look at my family picture. My son happens to be black, so they can do whatever they'd like about it," said LePage.

I had not heard of Maine's new governor until today and beyond his refusal to knuckle to special interests, he states the following at his election site:

"Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned."

While Paul is Governor, he will:

Protect Mainers' Gun Rights. Paul will veto any legislation that restricts Mainers' constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.

Preserve Mainers' Ability to Defend Themselves. Paul will re-evaluate all policies to ensure Mainers' right to defend their families from danger in their homes will receive the legal protections they deserve.

Mainers, I hope he is as strong on the 2nd and the rest of your liberties.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has introduced a little-noticed bill that intends to once again renew controversial provisions of the Bush administration's USA Patriot Act that are due to expire this year.

When the act was first signed into law, Congress put in some "sunset" provisions to quiet the concerns of civil libertarians, but they were ignored by successive extensions. Unfortunately, those concerns proved to be well founded, and a 2008 Justice Department report confirmed that the FBI regularly abused their ability to obtain personal records of Americans without a warrant.

Safer streets are evidence of a healthy self-rule, the very kind the Founding Fathers insisted on. America is a place where our values system is an aggregate of working safeguards of our liberty, our sovereignty, and our total way of life here. It is comprised of marriage and family, personal and professional integrity, good faith and the reasonable expectation of good faith, and a spirit of personal independence as a matter of personal dignity. In short, there is little for public servants to do beyond the enumerated powers they are supposed to have. The problem begins with powers servants are not supposed to have.

How are gun control and safer streets incompatible?

In 1987, Billie Boggs was a homeless lady in the City of New York. The story can be found by Internet search term Billie Boggs and is commented in my book Safer Streets 2010. Thumbnail, it was a case that compelled the government to release homeless people from the protection of psychiatric incarceration and other plans where they were kept against their will, and against their civil rights. President Reagan is often blamed for ejecting the homeless from such shelter, but among the facts are the details that the New York Civil Liberties Union showed that Billie Boggs was not so incapacitated and not worthy of incarceration. She was to be released. The significant highlight of the case was that people were rounded up to get them off the streets for cosmetic purposes without regard for their rights to refuse. When the case was litigated by the NYCLU, the idea of hospitalization of the homeless for some passed into history.

Civil rights are always going to be dissolved incrementally entirely because they are safeguards which make the ambitious public servant’s tinkering an unwelcome redundancy. What the second amendment does is make gun control unnecessary as well, because it is the armed citizens who manage around 2.5 million times annually to stop a crime in progress in the absence of law enforcement. This is a very good safeguard against violent crime (when the right is respected). It means 2.5 million acts which were not completed. Though police cannot be everywhere, citizens are everywhere.

From the McCrudden complaint, which cites a letter sent by the Alnbri CEO to a CFTC lawyer T.M.: "You can tell that fucking corrupt piece of Goldman Sachs shit [G.G.] I am coming after him as well. Oh, and your "ban"... shove them up your fucking ass you corrupt mother fucker....Make sure you all show up with [T.M.] and that fucking corrupt fucking midget [G.G.] when you serve me papers. I have something ready for you all." It appears that Vincent sure was passionate about his beliefs... And certainly not a fan of Gary Gensler.

You see, if you're going to kill some motherfuckers, it's important to not broadcast your intention to kill said motherfuckers, because such motherfuckers as you have identified will likley go to the corrupt motherfucking authorities before you can pop a cap in them.

Expressing your anger publicly is forbidden. Please note that while your owners are performing "acts of god" by raping you, lube is a privilege and NOT a right. Our Ministry of Lube is experiencing an attack by foreign speculators and we are addressing this problem with diligence. Until our lube shortage is addressed, we appreciate your patience and understanding.

Burson-Marsteller's strong position in crisis management has resulted in its identification with many major corporate crises of the past half century. It is well known for assisting Johnson & Johnson in the two Tylenol crises in 1982 and 1986.

Burson-Marsteller also has had a close working relationship with many of the global producers and marketers of petroleum products in training their employees how to respond to crises and working on key communications of specific crisis situations such as oil spills and serious accidents. It has also worked with these companies in the development of environmental upgrade programs. Among those served by Burson-Marsteller are Shell, Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Chevron, BP, Repsol, Gulf and numerous smaller entities that were merged into the larger companies.

That is PURE SPECULATION on my part based the observation there is NO ONGOING MEDIA COVERAGE of the death of a 37 year old mother of 3 that brokered a $200,000,000 transaction of taxpayer funded “stimulus” money to her employer while her husband closed the larger $800,000,000 deal.

25 August 09
New "Grassroots" Pro-Coal Group backed by K-Street PR Firm

"The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal)." the latest "grassroots" organization to join the public conversation on behalf of the coal industry, appears to be a project of the K-Street public relations firm, the Adfero Group, one of industry's most accommodating voices in Washington, D.C.

The FACES website, which includes no contact information, is registered to Adfero.

[Update: since we posted this article, the website registration for facesofcoal.com has been updated overnight and Adfero's name has been wiped, however - thanks to research by one of our most loyal readers, Frank Bi, a cross-reference with Adfero's IP address still shows facesofcoal.com running on their server.]

FACES describes itself as "an alliance of people from all walks of life who are joining forces to educate lawmakers and the general public about the importance of coal and coal mining." But Adfero's client list includes Koch Industries and the US Chamber of Commerce, two leaders in the fight to confuse, distort and deny the science of climate change - and especially to block government action that might affect their bottom line.

FACES' coming-out press release claimed the new group consists of, "Some 70 different organizations and individuals representing a broad cross-section of people and communities throughout the Appalachian region are the coalition's first members. Any individual, business or organization can join FACES of Coal."

But Adfero doesn't specialize in spontaneous public advocacy. It specializes in crafting a "custom-tailored message" and then recruiting "key contacts" who can slam that message home. Here, from Adfero's own website, is their own version:

"At the end of the day, it's all about relationships. From policymakers to homemakers, people respond best when the message is delivered by someone they know and trust.

"That's where traditional grassroots outreach comes in. Adfero is able to tap an impressive network of national, state and local contacts to deliver your custom-tailored message. We’ll identify and recruit local constituents, opinion leaders, community activists or political operatives to engage in activities designed to get attention and results. We have access to key contacts on the ground who can conduct intercepts with elected officials at speeches, rallies, local town hall meetings and other events."

Interesting, and even more so when I found the following link in the comments there.

This may seem trivial, but the logs have been full of search hits about Ashley Turton and some examples are the Executive Office of the President, the CIA (on a Blackberry no less), DHS and other 3 Letter Agencies, the BATFE, several K-Street Groups (like Adfero), and others just seemingly interested.

The major media has been very quiet about Ashley Turton's death and the unusual circumstances and the fine folks at FreeRepublic are posting some interesting information in the threads (1, 2, 3).

Go, read, learn and ask some questions as this is becoming curiouser and curiouser.

I was forwarded an E-mail with a very long document that had a link to the source of the information so I went to it and then found no link for the information but an acknowledgment to the Daily Pen which I easily found here.

Below is the introduction and it is a long read- but worth your time and so are the comments as the hold more links to access.

OCON Docs: Hawaii Ballot Chief...Grandma, Called Obama To Hawaii In 2008
. UPDATED 1/13/11
New analysis of Democrat Party's official 2008 Certification of Nomination for Obama reveals that reasons for his sudden trip to Hawaii in October, 2008 was to visit more than just his sick grandmother. Hawaiian election laws and post-dated documents reveal he may have attended a hearing with Hawaiian Chief Elections Officer regarding his disqualification from ballot due to lack of certified Constitutional eligibility.
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by Pen Johannson
Editor, The Daily Pen

Honolulu, Hawaii - At the center of the war over Barack Obama’s illegitimacy as president are a series of deep seated, unanswered questions about the detailed involvement of several municipal employees and officials within the government of the State of Hawaii. From former governor, Linda Lingle’s convenient deniability to former Health Department director, Chiyome Fukino’s intentionally misleading statements about Obama’s vital records. From the blatant, dismissive ignorance of Hawaii’s legislature about the difference between "U.S. Citizenship" and "Natural-born citizenship", to the claims by a former Honolulu senior elections office clerk that the State of Hawaii does not possess an original, 1961 Certificate of Live Birth for Barack Obama, the State of Hawaii has emerged as the primary co-conspirator in keeping Obama’s identity a well kept secret from the American people.

In one of the finer speeches of his career, Obama realized that, at this hour and in this tragedy, his country yearned to come together on the higher ground of grief for the fallen, celebration of those who behaved bravely and prayerful hope for the wounded.

By rising above "politics and point-scoring and partisanship" in Tucson, the president has recaptured some of the luster he had lost since that January two years ago.

These people can continue to approve of the Muslim Kenyan's actions, but you can see the truth for yourself. Barrack Hussein Obama, the Muslim Kenyan, used the eulogy of the dead for HIS purposes, and only his, which displayed his true sense of those that are dead and wounded and that sense is these people, our fellow citizens, are nothing.

13 January, 2011

Mary Sperling was a character in Heinlein's novel Methuselah's Children who, for the safety of life, gave up her liberty- her SELF, to join the collective of the Little People:

The first planet they discover has humanoid inhabitants who seem friendly and advanced - however, they are merely domestic animals belonging to the planet's true masters, indescribable beings of equally indescribable power. When humans prove incapable of similar domestication, they are expelled from the planet and sent to another world.

The second planet is a lush environment with no predators and mild weather. Its inhabitants are part of a group mind, with the mental ability to manipulate the environment on the genetic and molecular level. They have no independent personalities; anyone who join the group mind ceases to exist as a unique individual. This becomes evident when Mary Sperling, second oldest of the Families, who has always been fearful of death, joins the group mind in an attempt to become truly immortal. The Families are further horrified when the group mind, in a mistaken effort to be helpful, genetically modifies the first baby born on the planet into a new, alien, form.

I have never forgotten the revulsion her character brought forth in me when I first read this book so many years ago, and viewing the picture this morning from the Drudge Report, seeing how they all just stood there as this became a political event, instantly brought forth the thought- Mary Sperlings!

Proposals by lawmakers following the shooting of a Congresswoman in Tucson reveal a broad legislative intent to clamp down on personal liberties and ratchet up on state controls. Foremost in these efforts are self-styled “progressives,” who, in true Orwellian style, have advocated stepping up the freedom regression on several fronts.

As we noted in this column on Monday, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and her ilk are planning to introduce new citizen disarmament edicts, and Rep. Robert Brady wants to ban sending representative’s symbols they might perceive as threatening. (Yo, Bob: Wet yourself.)

Confused by the recent downdraft in the price of (paper) silver... Even more confused by what is happening with the record open interest in the metal? Have no fear. The bears are here, and explain things in their traditionally simple and sound effect-filled way.

After the Fed bought over $1 trillion of US Treasury bonds in the past 2 years, it is now reverse payback time, in which the Fed gives the Treasury just a little more cash. The FRB announced that per "unaudited" 2010 results (obviously), the Fed is provisioning to pay the Treasury $78.4 billion, a 50%+ increase from the $47 billion paid to the Treasury in 2009. What is the basis of this payment? Why the Fed's charter of course: "Under the Board's policy, the residual earnings of each Federal Reserve Bank, after providing for the costs of operations, payment of dividends, and the amount necessary to equate surplus with capital paid-in, are distributed to the U.S. Treasury." Which means that as the Fed buys up ever more Treasurys, and as rates continue their inexorable rise higher, the Fed will continue to receive interest payments from the US Treasury, which, at the end of every year, it will promptly remit back to whoever the current incarnation of Tim Geithner is, in essence nullifying the "checks and balances" impact of cash out interest expense on Treasury, and thus government, deficit decisions. In fact, the greater the amount of debt issued, and therefore monetized, the less the Treasury actually has to pay in interest. And in the meantime, the higher interest rates go, the greater the duration-adjusted loss on Fed holdings. But who cares about those: after all, results are all "unaudited" and the Fed will hold all securities to the earlier of "maturity" or default - as if anyone doubts which will happen first.

In the latest stunner of disclosure in what goes on just below the murky surface of the biggest scam market in the world (that would be the multi-trillion residential debt market), we learn that a Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court judge, Peter Sikora, who is facing foreclosure on his million dollar (8 room) home. But that is not what makes him unique: after all the story of your average American who buys iPads and garter belts with money that should be going into mortgage payments is all too well known by now. What is amazing, however, is that the reason for his 12 month delinquency is that according to JP Morgan, who service the loan, the only way Sikora would be eligible for loan modification would be if he were in delinquency, which is what they advised him to do. That's right - a bank formally told a client to willfully default on a mortgage.

Makes you wonder just how bright he really is, or as was my first thought- a quid-pro-quo attempt? However, reading the comments at the Cleveland.com site, I found this and that and the links are worth the read.

11 January, 2011

The wife of a key White House aide was found dead early Monday in a sport-utility vehicle that was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple's Capitol Hill home, sources familiar with the incident said. The cause of her death is uncertain.

Ashley W. Turton, 37, an energy company lobbyist and former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), was found dead shortly before 5 a.m. in a burning BMW, the back end of which was partly out of the garage, as if the vehicle had been entering or leaving when the fire started, authorities said.

AND

A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.

A curious death.

WP

UPDATE

I was checking the logs and found a search that was done with the following:

ashley turton federal reserve

Being the curious man I am, I decided to look a bit and found the following at the economicpolicyjournal:

The rumors are swirling big time in D.C. Here's what one anonymous commenter wrote at my earlier post:

Now this gets interesting, because Rosa DeLauro owned the house in which Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free during House sessions for five years. Word from DC is that the place was wired for audio and video. Ashley Turton, as DeLauro's chief of staff, probably wrote the checks to pay bills on that condo and would be privy to "extra" expenses.

We now know, however, that the flow of weapons to the south is indeed, in part, coming from within the United States, not from dealers or their civilian customers, but specifically from the BATFE, which has been caught "walking" weapons—recently five hundred semiautomatic AR-15 rifles—across the border into Mexico in order to "boost" the statistics they have been using to try to limit our rights.

Five hundred items the media can call "machineguns" or "assault rifles". Five hundred civilian-legal weapons to "prove" their lying claims.

Let me repeat that for our slower readers in Keene, New Hampshire: the BATFE is smuggling semiautomatic weapons into Mexico to support their claim that the drug cartels are being equipped by American gun dealers.

One more time: the Mexican cartels get their guns from the U.S. government.

We give consent through a process known as elections. Those who argue that the fact that an election didn't have the outcome they wanted means they have right to take up arms are not only incorrect, they're delusional and, it can be argued, have violated Federal Law besides.

Representative Republics, of which The United States is, are formed on the premise that the people elect persons to represent and discharge their wishes in the various organs of government. That we continue to send people to Congress and The White House who fail to discharge our demands in the form and fashion we desire is no fault but ours.

There are, in fact, candidates besides Democrats and Republicans on the ballot. In most states you can also write in a candidate. That you believe no candidate other than a "D" or "R" can win does not make it so. It simply means that you, along with your other countrymen and women, are willing to vote for and elect the person who holds the office, irrespective of the fact that they did not do as you directed, or as they promised.

In short, you are free, as a citizen, to be a masochist. We are, in fact today, a nation of masochists.

The above four paragraphs are from the middle of the article and all of it is well worth the read- but I do not agree with all of it.

Denninger states that the only time the 2nd Amendment is valid against the government is when those who loose an election refuse to leave. This is but one and I think there are others and Denninger actually lists one that I think is the most important reason- can you, the reader, think of others?

Friends accompanied him to public events, subtly clearing a path through the adoring crowds for the living legend, whose Easy Company's achievements were documented by a book and HBO miniseries. His gait had grown unsteady, and he did not want to be seen stumbling.

Winters "didn't want the members of Easy Company to know," William Jackson said Monday of his longtime friend, who died last week at age 92. "Right up to the end, he was the company commander."

An intensely private and humble man, Winters had asked that news of his death be withheld until after his funeral, Jackson said. Winters lived in Hershey, Pa., but died in an assisted-living center in neighboring Palmyra.

The men Winters led through harrowing circumstances and under fire from the German army never let the toll of time dull their own admiration for their commander.

"When he said `Let's go,' he was right in the front," William Guarnere, 88, and dubbed "Wild Bill" by his comrades, said Sunday night from his south Philadelphia home. "He was never in the back. A leader personified."

Another member of the unit living in Philadelphia, Edward Heffron, 87, called Winters "one hell of a guy, one of the greatest soldiers I was ever under."

10 January, 2011

The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.

Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff as Lock-ner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation. Of course he meant Scott or Irish but that isn't the point. The point is he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past and that is how he knows how to pronounce the name.

Now, everyone will demand sources which is fully understandable and will point out that thechollajumps states the following in the comments:

The source is confidential. The documentation never made it to public record as of yet. I imagine it will be part of the prosecutions case in the future. The FBI will have all of that documentation soon.

Six dead and fourteen wounded by an obviously insane 22-year old man- the Paranoid Family extends our deepest condolences.

Not much is known about him beyond his insanity, in fact, real weirdness is what we know due to his writings and YouTube videos, which is even weirder when we see that his page was subscribed to BY Gabrielle Giffords- BEFORE the shootings.

What we do know is those that dance in the blood of tragedies already have started- from John Boehner's classification of elected officials as GREATER than those who elected them to be servants:

"I am horrified by the senseless attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and members of her staff. An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society. Our prayers are with Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, all who were injured, and their families. This is a sad day for our country."

Then of course, there is Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's continued blood reveling:

"My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow," McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview.

For those that do not recall HOW she was able to get herself elected I will point out that she did so, like some Banana-Republic hero, she "waved the blood soaked shirts" of her husband, who was murdered by the racist Colin Ferguson and her son who was severely wounded by Ferguson. She blamed an inanimate objects instead of the lunatic who did it. Of course, she has no problem with killing a child in a woman's womb, but that is different, isn't it?

"...reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress."

Of course, he also wants the 2nd Amendment scrubbed too and like McCarthy, also is a strong supporter of killing a child in a woman's womb too.

Majority Leader Boehner, Representatives McCarthy and Brady your actions, proposed bills and statements are simply not true as our Republic was founded on such and to deny it is to DENY the very existence of the Republic and our founding documents. Then again, just when did any of you ever call for or put forth legislation that would have those involved in Ruby Ridge, Waco, or even last Wednesdays botched drug raid where Mr. Eurie Stamps, of Framingham, Massachusetts was killed by another one of those government employees, who each of you hold in higher esteem than the public that pays their salaries?

NEVER!

I do not condone those insane acts by Jared Loughner or any other lunatic, nor am I calling for people to do so. What I am pointing out is that you are supposed to be adults with the ability to think and examine all the facts- of which we have damn few. Instead, each of you are doing exactly what the Israeli, Rahm Emanuel, is so famously quoted for:

Go ahead do such, but I want to remind you of your calls to use this act for the destruction of the Republic is NOT what the Founders wanted or abiding by the oath, each of you swore:

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
--- Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.

[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
---James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually...I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor...
---George Mason

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour. Geroge Washington (Address to 1st session of Congress)

They couldn't do it while he waited, so he said he didn't live far and would just walk home. On the way home he stopped at the hardware Store and bought a bucket and a gallon of paint. He then stopped by the feed store and picked up a couple of chickens and a goose. However, struggling outside the store he now had a problem - how to carry his entire purchases home.

While he was scratching his head he was approached by a little old lady who told him she was lost. She asked, "Can you tell me how to get to 1603 Mockingbird Lane?" The farmer said, "Well, as a matter of fact, my farm is very close to that house. I would walk you there but I can't carry this lot."

The old lady suggested, "Why don't you put the can of paint in the bucket. Carry the bucket in one hand, put a chicken under each arm and carry the goose in your other hand?"

"Why thank you very much," he said and proceeded to walk the old girl home.
On the way he says "Let's take my short cut and go down this alley. We'll be there in no time."

The little old lady looked him over cautiously then said, "I am a lonely widow without a husband to defend me.. How do I know that when we get in the alley you won't hold me up against the wall, pull up my skirt, and have your way with me?"

The farmer said, "Holy smokes lady! I'm carrying a bucket, a gallon of paint, two chickens, and a goose. How in the world could I possibly hold you up against the wall and do that?"

The old lady replied, "Set the goose down, cover him with the bucket, put the paint on top of the bucket, and I'll hold the chickens."